Office of the Vice-President Research
April 2014 Update
Policy & Process
Partnerships
Board of Governors Approves Research Policy
International Agreements Signed
A flat rate of 25% will now be applied to all research
agreements replacing variable overhead rates.
The U of S signed agreements with four international
partners:
The change will ease negotiations with sponsors,
create administrative efficiencies, and align with
fellow western U15 universities
The new “Institutional Costs of Research” policy
will revise the current “Administration of Research
Overheads” effective May 1st, 2014.
For further details or a presentation in your unit,
contact Susan Blum (Research Services), 966-8575
Report On Western Canadian Innovation Offices
The Industry Liaison Office completed a Report on
Western Canadian Innovation Offices:
Based on discussions of representatives from
western Canadian post-secondary institutions
Outlines items for action in western technology
transfer offices
A Memorandum of Understanding with Mekelle
University in Ethiopia was finalized on March 20th.
A Memorandum of Agreement for a Collaborative
Dual Ph.D. Program in Plant Science was signed on
March 3rd with Iwate University in Japan.
VIDO-InterVac and Pan-Provincial Vaccine
Enterprise Inc. (PREVENT) signed a Memorandum
of Understanding with the Bureau of Science
& Information Technology under Guangzhou
Development District and South China United
Vaccine Institute Ltd. in China.
A Memorandum of Understanding was signed
on March 24th with Universidad Technologica
ECOTEC in Ecuador.
Dutch Delegation Visits Campus
A delegation from the Netherlands including the
Ambassador to Canada and the Honorary Consul at
Saskatoon visited the U of S on March 27th.
Funding Successes
Idea to Innovation Funding
Provincial Funding for Infrastructure Projects
Two U of S researchers were awarded NSERC Market
Assessment - Idea to Innovation (I2I) Grants in
collaboration with the U of S Industry Liaison Office:
The U of S received $2.086 million from the Province
of Saskatchewan’s 2013-14 Innovation and Science
Fund:
Bernard Laarveld (Animal and Poultry Science)
was awarded $10,000 for the project “Market
Consulting Services for Commercialization of an
Animal Waste Catalytic Process Technology.”
Stephen Foley (Chemistry) was awarded $10,000
for the project “Design and Synthesis of Well-Defined
Ligands for Selective Extraction of Gold from Alkaline
Cyanide Solution.”
Will support nine projects previously funded by the
Canada Foundation for Innovation
Includes $1.298 million for the BioXAS: Life Science
Beamline for X-Ray Absorption Spectroscopy at
the Canadian Light Source Synchrotron
For more information, visit: http://goo.gl/KTkAUj
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Office of the Vice-President Research
April 2014 Update
Assessing Rural and Aboriginal Co-operatives
Health Projects Funded
Murray Fulton (Centre for the Study of Cooperatives) has received $1 million from Federated
Co-operatives Limited (FCL) to support the
project “Co-operative Business Development in
Rural Municipalities and Aboriginal Communities in
Canada.”
For more information, visit: http://goo.gl/1reZmA
Six U of S health projects have been awarded funding
from Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR)
and other organizations.
Resisting Stripe Rust
Randy Kutcher (CDC) has received $800,000 from
Bayer Crop Science Inc. for the project “Integration
of Fungicide Strategies and Genetic Resistance to
Control Stripe Rust of Wheat.”
Further Funding for “Camera Pill” Project
Khan Wahid (Electrical and Computer Engineering)
has been awarded $99,500 from Western Economic
Diversification Canada for the project “Advanced
Image Processing Technology”.
For more information, visit: http://goo.gl/YwN80k
Doctoral Research in Mongolia
Doctoral candidate Thuan Chu was awarded
$20,000 from the International Development
Research Centre for the project “Modelling Patterns
and Drivers of Post-Fire Forest Regeneration through
a Remote Sensing Approach in Mongolia” under the
supervision of Xulin Guo (Geography and Planning).
Nazeem Muhajarine and Cordell Neudorf
(Community Health and Epidemiology), with
Margaret Baker (Saskatchewan Ministry of Health)
were awarded $73,750 from CIHR for the project
“SPOR Network in Primary and Integrated Health Care
Innovations: Saskatchewan.”
Troy Harkness (Anatomy and Cell Biology) and
Terra Arnason (Medicine) were awarded $165,000
from the Canadian Cancer Society for the project
“Metformin and Microarrays: An Innovative
Approach to Treating and Monitoring Drug Resistant
Canine Lymphoma.”
Andries Muller (Family Medicine) was awarded a
$35,000 Canadian Medical Protective Association
(CMPA) Grant for the project “Continuing
Interprofessional Cultural Safety Education for
Distributed Health Care Teams” with co-investigator
Stacey Lovo Grona (School of Physical Therapy).
Colleen Dell (Sociology), Peter Butt (Family
Medicine), Joseph Stookey and Hugh Townsend
(Large Animal Clinical Sciences) were awarded
$49,913 from CIHR for the project “Treating Drug
Addiction with Animal Assisted Therapy.”
Rachel Engler-Stringer (Community Health and
Epidemiology) was awarded $25,000 from CIHR
for the project “Dissemination Activities for the
Smart Cities, Healthy Kids: Food Environments Study”
with U of S co-investigators Nazeem Muhajarine
(Community Health and Epidemiology), Fleur
MacQueen Smith (SPHERU), Tracy Ridalls (SPHERU).
Lorraine Holtslander (Nursing) and was awarded
$100,000 from CIHR for the project “Honoring the
voices of bereaved caregivers: A Metasynthesis of
Qualitative Research with Bereaved Caregivers” with
principal knowledge user Sharon Baxter (Canadian
Hospice Palliative Care Association).
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